Tag Archive: tax fraud

Tax Whistleblower Program in Need of Improvements

Author: admin April 11, 2016

Whistleblower awards for those reporting an employer’s underpayments to the Internal Revenue Service’s (“IRS”) Tax Whistleblower Program can be quite significant. In fact, one tax whistleblower received a $104 million award from the IRS in 2012 for disclosing Swiss tax…
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IRS Tax Whistleblower Program, Tax Fraud

Congress, Dodd-Frank Act, False Claims Act, FCA, GAO, Internal Revenue Code, Internal Revenue Service, IRS, IRS Office of Appeals, National Whistleblowers Center, Tax and Health Care Act of 2006, tax fraud, Tax Whistleblower Program, U.S. Government Accountability Office

Ninja Turtles tax fraud plan alleged by Ex-Viacom VP in whistleblower suit

Author: admin March 2, 2016

As initially reported by Reuters, a former vice president of Viacom, Inc. has sued the media giant claiming that she was fired in retaliation for her opposition to Viacom’s alleged Ninja Turtles tax fraud plan, which involved illegally avoiding paying…
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Dodd-Frank Act, Sarbanes-Oxley, Tax Fraud, Whistleblower, workplace retaliation

Dodd-Frank Act, retaliation, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, tax fraud, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, TMNT, Viacom, whistleblower